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CONTENTS 

Living The LifeHdeal 

Planting a Prayer 

Tantrums are Prayers 

Psychology of the Goat 

Jesus Taught a Scientific Prayer 

The Silence 

i Visions 

A. A. LINDSAY, M. l5. 



Published by 

A. A. LINDSAY PUBLISHING CO. 

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Copyright by 

A. A. LINDSAY. M. D. 

1918 



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WILL LIVE my ideal life." 
You, who have spoken those 
words gave description to the 
I most musical and poetic 
thought that can come to the human 
mind. The thought must go before the 
act; thought and word are well on the 
way to the act and with the repetition 
of the voluntary thought, word and act, 
there comes the character realization — 
the spontaneity or automatism is estab- 
lished. When living the ideal has be- 
come the standard it is not probable that 
one will become dispossessed of the 
mode, therefore life in all of its phases 
and affairs becomes adapted to that reg- 
ulation calling for the highest harmony. 
It is the law of standards (auto-sugges- 



8 THE LIFE IDEAL 

tion) that makes growth so impossible 
when one has the habit of inharmony, 
the code of practice fixed after some se- 
lection which is not prompted by the 
ideal. 

I am convinced that down in the heart 
of everyone there is a preference for 
truth, beauty, love — the ideal, but since 
one finds he must overcome the current 
of usual human practice if he would 
be true, he consents to go against the 
tide of his own soul. There are no ac- 
tual losses attending where one refrains 
from going with the usual; there are 
eternal losses and the height of ruin 
where one departs from his innate ideal. 
The individual who has the courage to 
follow his own soul's inspirations and 
intuitions is so rare that the world would 
deify such a woman or man. One has 
not the courage usually because each is 
trying to live another's life and is hav- 
ing the pattern set by ideas instead of 
having it created by the ideal. The ze- 
nith of courage has become attained 
when one resolves and lives after the 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 9 

plans inspired of the creative intelligence 
within himself. 

HINDRANCES TO LIVING 
THE IDEAL. 

It is no particular tribute to one's 
strength if he does that which the masses 
of men do ; the self-approval is sufficient 
compensation when one makes a way of 
his own; the loss of self respect when 
following the crowd is sufficient punish- 
ment for refuting nature's highest law, 
which is that each shall become an in- 
dividual. 

One who lives true to his ideal pre- 
sents to the world that which is original 
for there are no duplicates. The ideal 
for one person is not the ideal for an- 
other for there are as many shades to 
truth, beauty and goodness as there are 
human beings and for this very reason 
each one should become the manifesta- 
tion of his own innate manner. One 
hindrance to one's fulfillment of his ideal 
is that he is judged by the light of the 
idea in others. If he were judged by the 



10 THE LIFE IDEAL 

light of the ideal in others he would be 
the victim of injustice for the highest in 
one differs in vital elements as much as 
does the sun differ from the moon. 

The self-appointed rulers over the dif- 
ferent affairs of human life, the rulers 
of fashion, the rulers of manners, the 
makers of moral codes, and those who 
dictate the standards of arts (for music 
and painting and sculpture and literature 
vary as much from time to time as do 
the patterns of automobiles) and those, 
who, calculating, fix the educational 
standards, all are formulators of ideas 
and they seldom describe an ideal. 

There is as much difference between 
an idea and an ideal as there is between 
a guess of the sense and reason depart- 
ment of the objective mind and the in- 
spiration of the innate intelligence which 
knows without having to acquire. The 
department of truth, the intuitive phase 
with the heritage of spirit which spon- 
taneously perceives, transcends all pos- 
sible knowing upon the part of intellect. 
An idea is a thought arrangement se- 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 11 

lected with reference to sensation, volun- 
tarily formulated by the volitional de- 
partment of the human being; the ideal 
is a picture originating in the highest 
spiritual phase of the individual, it is an 
element of the kingdom of heaven within 
the person. That which is called for by 
the picture of the perfect from that 
source should be worked into experience, 
should become objectified; that is the 
source of the true architectural plan af- 
ter which one's life, if it is to be true, 
must be constructed. 

Life is not a mass of something; life 
is the sum total of the elements or fac- 
tors of experience and there is a truth 
picture, an ideal, which pertains to each 
item of life. Outside of some general 
principles there is nothing common 
among mankind for the ideal for each 
calls for an individual mode of exhibit- 
ing even those subjects which, by name, 
may be present in all. A musician may 
express music faithful to all the science 
of music and true to his individual ideal. 
Let another copy to the utmost and it 



12 THE LIFE IDEAL 

will not require a cultivated musician to 
disclose the fact that the faithful copy is 
not music, a mere amateur will perceive 
that. Yet the world of echoes will strive 
to imitate. 

That which is involved in the last ref- 
erence above is true of each thing in ev- 
ery life. Because ideas have become the 
usual plans the world has become prim- 
arily made up of human beings who are 
imitators and domination (tyrants and 
subjects) is consented to by the many 
and the part of ideals amounts to a sub- 
ject for phantastic speech. The chief 
hindrance to one's expression of the 
ideal is the very loneliness of the situa- 
tion. The world is following ideas con- 
ceived of from without and neglecting 
the attitudes and practice by which the 
pictures of the perfect can come before 
the consciousness of the individual to be 
approved as working plans by the execu- 
tive department of the individual. 

To be ridiculed and scorned is the 
price of daring to be one's self and few 
there are who have the commendable 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 13 

self-sufficiency to be true when it is the 
custom to be false. To follow the true 
God when there are false gods with 
popular following requires more inde- 
pendence than is usual. Then, if one 
should become a loyal follower of the 
truth as it would be revealed to him from 
within he is sure to become so original 
that he will project into the lives of his 
fellows new ways ; he will become a 
saviour and saviour's are subject to cru- 
cifixion, or at least to persecution until 
it is disclosed they cannot be annihilated, 
then the world accepts their teachings, 
declaring that it always knew the teach- 
ings were true. A man usually prefers 
to travel the beaten path ; he chooses the 
commonplace rather than have the stand- 
ard, the individual innate ideals, become 
the rule of his action. To be original 
and follow the guidance of the supreme 
self within is not popular, it is a solitary 
way and that is the greatest hindrance 
to living the life true to the ideal. But 
there are many helps — they overcome 
the hindrances if we know certain psy- 



14 THe LIFE IDEAL 

chological laws pertaining to the ideal 
and the compensation for living after it. 

HELPS TO LIVING THE IDEAL. 

That self -approval attending upon a 
consciousness of being right is payment 
enough to warrant a triumphant contact 
with all the oppositions to the life ideal. 
For the larger part life is a dealing with 
pictures; pictures in memory through 
recollections, pictures in prophecy 
through anticipation. Our contact with 
things, themselves, is brief but we may 
live in the pictures of the experiences 
forever. The most awful feature is not 
in the moment in which the situation is 
passing when it is a bad affair; the dis- 
mal picture it made while the experience 
was on, stamping an impression upon the 
plastic self comprised the chief disaster. 
The joy in a fleeting moment of objectifi- 
cation may be slight ; the joy in long an- 
ticipation of something altogether desir- 
able may hold one in ecstasy for a great 
while and the delight in a retained im- 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 15 

mortal picture which is subject to recall 
may be of the heavenly degree and in- 
cessant. 

I find in my professional observations 
people who are suffering more from a 
recollection of pain than from any or- 
ganic condition warranting pain. The 
power of an image is shown to be abso- 
lute on the side of ruin. Harboring the 
picture in fear is a scientific basis of re- 
realizing the experience depicted in the 
imagery comprising the fear. This is 
scientific praying. Then, after the thing 
has been experienced, the suffering on 
account of the impression it made in 
picture form is much greater than the 
conscious suffering while the disaster 
was on. Surely the potency of the im- 
age is equally great when there is a joy- 
ful anticipation followed by the brief pe- 
riod of experience involving mind, soul 
and body, with the subsequent situation 
in which memory retains in its store- 
house the history of the joyful encount- 
er. The normal human being will rejoice 
incessantly in pleasurable anticipations 



16 THE LIFE IDEAL 

and happy recollections and this by no 
force of will but it will be his spontane- 
ous attitude. I supply all of the above 
for the purpose of bringing ourselves to 
approach the proper estimate of a pic- 
ture when it is impressed in the memory 
phase of the soul or in its prophecy 
phase. If I succeed in that I will silence 
any suggestion of limitation of potencies 
pertaining to the ideal when we declare 
that the ideal is a picture, an image, a 
thought in the innate phase of the soul. 

A man or woman should be, in the 
body, in every form, texture, tint, chem- 
istry, magnetism and function; expres- 
sion of countenance, the sparkle of the 
eye and the glow of the cheek — every 
physical appointment,' a materilization 
and personification of the image of the 
individual, the picture present in his de- 
partment of ideals. The physical being 
of such a person would be in the image 
of God, for the God within has supplied 
the image after which the body is built. 

The God within, the department of 
ideals, holds the picture of every in- 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 17 

dividual item of character that should be 
manifested in the habit or character 
phase of the person ; one is not possessed 
of a body at conception except one cell. 
He has the potency of a complex body 
which must be built. He is not born 
with character, he must build that. His 
phase of innate ideals is the source from 
which the patterns must be received by 
his consciousness and approved by that 
volitional phase before the elements of 
character can be individualized as the 
spiritual image of God — images supplied 
from the God within. 

The God within holds all of the pic- 
tures of the innate ideals of which the 
life of the human being, the individual, 
should become comprised. His relation- 
ships to his fellow-man, to the world's 
flowers and all the rest of animate forms, 
every expression, indeed all things which 
one should experience, manifest or at- 
tain are in image form present in the de- 
partment of innate ideals and for the 
individual there is no other source from 



18 THE LIFE IDEAL 

which his true pictures, architectural 
plans, can be gained. 

I am now looking to some of the helps 
to living the ideal life; could I do more 
than show that which the ideal contains ? 
Could one wish for higher attainment 
than the perfect for himself as an indi- 
vidual? Could one desire more joy than 
the potencies of joy present in his own 
soul? Can one wish for art that is 
greater than the completest? Is it pos- 
sible to wish for a body superior in form 
and harmonies to that which is appointed 
by the God within? 

I consider that I have supplied the 
supremest help when I have shown the 
potency of an image in any phase of the 
soul, either its memory, prophecy or in- 
nate phase in which are held the pictures 
of the perfect upon every subject, the 
ideals. At least I have supplied a most 
vital aid when I show where one must 
look to find his individual working plans, 
which, being followed will make him and 
his life ideal. In this exhibition I realize 
I have told no one anything which he did 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 19 

not know previous to my description. 
Perhaps he did not know he knew — per- 
haps he is benefited by knowing that one 
who has no devotion except to discover 
man and disclose man to himself, tes- 
tifies to its truth; everyone may 
have more confidence in his own 
knowledge when his impressions 
have become corroborated by one who 
gives his life to the subject. If my testi- 
mony helps one when I have borne wit- 
ness to the presence of truth in every 
man I am sure I will become a benefac- 
tor indeed when I show the scientific 
formulas for gaining the practical rela- 
tionships to the department of deific 
knowledge and power; the seat of the 
ideals. I am sure few teachers have 
been of service in this direction. I have 
been compelled to wonder why the lead- 
ers of men, the self —appointed teachers, 
have taught throughout the ages that if 
a man is to be built into perfections he 
must seek outside for the patterns; he 
must pray for a special providence to 
supply a pattern and force his life into 



20 THE LIFE IDEAL 

fulfillment of the pattern. I have won- 
dered why a man must wait for favor 
if he is to become strong in body and 
character or if he is to be guided by 
something greater than his intellect he 
must look to an outside source. Man- 
kind is coming into its own very rapidly 
and there is a liberating gospel that shall 
satisfy everyone that he is right when he 
is looking within for pattern and power 
pertaining to all of which he should be- 
come the manifestation. 

I do not wish to convey the truths 
pertaining to how to live the life ideal 
through the "thou shalt nots." Gaining 
and applying the truth in any matter 
contradicts all that is false upon the sub- 
ject. Enthroning the ideal repudiates all 
that is different and less. One has no 
occasion to attack ugliness when one is 
growing beauty. One has no occasion to 
make outcry against the artificial when 
he is living the natural and all true beau- 
ty is in the natural, not in any of its sub- 
stitutes and one is giving one's fellow- 
man too large a place when he would 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 21 

practice the artifice because it is a cus- 
tom. 

But how wonderful is beauty — I can 
agree with Maeterlink when he declares 
that beauty is the soul's food — it surely 
perishes when there is not a supply and 
how it does shrink either in the presence 
of ugliness or the artificialities, the hy- 
pocrisies. One becomes like that about 
which he thinks a great deal — may we 
dwell in the ideal ; may we seek to know 
its face, may we become familiar with 
all that is within that nearby kingdom of 
heaven. 




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ON S CIO US, intentional 
formal praying does not 
need attention at our 
hands; the prayers issued 
in the average life when the iudividual 
is unaware of the fact that he is asking 
or commanding in the most scientific 
manner should have the most careful 
examination. There are definite laws 
pertaining to prayer the same as there 
are laws of sowing and gathering. 

Upon the subject of prayer we act 
usually as if only the good things which 
we formally ask would become probable 
realizations. We would be just as wise 
in thinking that since wheat is a most 
desirable product seeds of wire-grass 
would not reproduce their kind if they 
should be thrown upon the earth. The 
laws of germination are just the same 
whether the earth receives into its bosom 
the grains of wheat sown intentionally or 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 23 

a burr that falls from the sleeve of one's 
coat. The farmer knows this so well 
that that he is ever watchful to see that 
no burrs mature on his land; he knows 
that with slight indulgence it would not 
be very long until there would be no 
food in the soil for wheat, it would all 
be consumed by the weed. 

Everyone assumes a familiarity with 
the subject of planting. The wife selects 
from the seed catalogue the flowers she 
would wish to see blooming in her yard 
and she plans the seeds knowing that she 
can depend upon the development that 
will give her the color scheme she would 
wish fulfilled when the flowers are 
blooming. How fortunate she would be 
if she knew that the thoughts she forms 
in her meditations and the thoughts she 
hurls into picture form, are, when is- 
sued, real seeds and planted in the me- 
dium which will reproduce each thought 
in its own peculiar shading and will be 
wholesome and sweet like the orange or 
may be as poisonous as the deadly night- 
shade. I am not using a figure of speech 



24 THE LIFE IDEAL 

in this connection ; I am exhibiting paral- 
lels; there is no difference in the princi- 
ples involved in planting a seed of the 
carnation and issuing a formulated 
thought, coming to a conclusion, for the 
reproductive quality in both instances is 
the same. It is the image with impulse 
in the carnation using a cell in material 
form through which to objectify or ex- 
hibit to the world that which that pic- 
ture (image) calls for and it comes back 
to the credit of the carnation — it keeps 
its classification since it was through the 
carnation species that the image came. 
The house-wife plants the varieties she 
wishes, dependably certain of their faith- 
fulness to species and variety. The pink 
seed is a thought and earth, temperature, 
moisture and chemistry aid in the ex- 
pression of the thought. 

The woman meditates or in an emo- 
tional manner thinks a thought, creates 
a picture, a picture accompanied with an 
impulse; her brain is the instrument of 
her mind used in formulating this seed, 
her subconscious self, acting upon ether 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 25 

waves, plants in the souls of other beings 
the image and impulse (the seed). She 
just as certainly plants these seeds in her 
own soul or subconscious phase, there- 
fore, altogether she has the whole world 
of mankind and perhaps the domestic 
animals with which she is in rapport 
and probably the vegetable world with 
which she has contact, for her harvest 
field. The earth helps to answer the 
prayer of the carnation seed, its prayer 
for expression, the universe of cell life 
and intelligence may serve in giving back 
in kind but multiplied degree the repro- 
duction of the formulated thought of the 
human being and in the reproduction ex- 
hibit experience (facts) forms or that 
which is essentially comprehended in the 
picture created by the mind of the human 
being. In the instance of the housewife 
she may be scientifically sure that she has 
provided for multiplied beauty, happi- 
ness, health, harmony, love or whatso- 
ever construction is described in her 
thought, to return to her from myriad 
directions, when her thought is predomi- 



26 THE LIFE IDEAL 

nately beautiful. It is quite as depend- 
able that fear, hatred, bitterness, abuse, 
falsehood, dishonesty or any other de- 
structive picturing will return in all mul- 
tiplicity, some a hundred fold, some a 
thousand fold, but the harvest surely will 
be after the kind of thoughts formulated 
in meditation or emotionally reinforced. 

Naturally, one wishes to have it ex- 
plained; how can these things be? All 
thought results are fulfillments of pray- 
ers ; they occur under the science of pray- 
er. When a farmer sows seeds he is 
praying for a harvest but the chief virtue 
is in the seed itself being a prayer. If 
the farmer inadvertently drops a cockle 
burr he has complied with the science of 
prayer as fully as when he intentionally 
dropped the grain of corn and each will 
produce its kind (unless he destroys one 
or the other before it reproduces). 

We used to be instructed that a prayer 
is a desire of the heart, uttered or 
thought. Through the modern modes of 
practical psychology it has become pos- 
sible to analyze prayer and of course we 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 27 

have come to realize that a fear of the 
heart has the same potency that a desire 
or hope possesses; that the same power 
and intelligence answers in both in- 
stances. When one has desire and ex- 
pectation he directs the deific power with- 
in him constructively; when he is filled 
with fear he has as much expectancy as 
one who hopes and his fear — picturing 
directs the same deific power destructive- 
ly that works constructively when one's 
pictures call for blessing instead of the 
opposite. 

With the same certainty that the de- 
sirable grain of corn and the undesirable 
cockle burr referred to above will both 
reproduce unless neutralized, sterilized, 
cancelled or the virility destroyed in some 
way so will the images planted in one's 
own subconscious and in the souls of 
others reproduce and continue to do so, 
repeating the history periodically, unless 
counter suggestions are used to destroy 
the virility of the images, the seed 
thoughts. All planting is scientifically 
praying — all thinking is planting. All 



28 THE LIFE IDEAL 

forms and all experiences have their 
sources in images and the human being 
has the power of selecting the images, 
choosing his prayers. He needs to choose 
prayers to cancel every destructive pic- 
turing he has ever issued or that may 
have come into his soul through heredi- 
ty or telepathy from others or pictures 
of diseases or disasters or inharmonies 
that may have been experienced. All un- 
cancelled pictures in one's soul are most 
potent prayers and they will reproduce 
under the law of soul expectancy, that 
law by which the God within builds into 
form that which is called for by the im- 
ages that have been consented to or 
chosen by the volition of the individual. 




tantrums wet iprsgers 

OCTOR, I think I must 
tell you about that which I 
know to be the cause of 
my suffering from inflamed 
nerves. I have carried my sorrow, never 
feeling until today that any good could 
come to anyone through its discussion; 
and I do feel so humiliated over having 
to talk about myself. After the third 
treatment the pain disappeared and re- 
mained absent until my sorrow re- 
appeared, that which paralyzes my mind, 
takes all hope out of my soul and dis- 
eases my body. 

"My sister and I have lived together 
for several years, she being engaged in 
an art way and I in the practical life. I 
have no interest in life except to care for 
her and I would gladly give up my life 
for her pleasure or to save her in any 
manner. I love her and I do not care 
for anything else nor anyone else in any 



30 THE LIFE IDEAL 

important degree. I decided that she 
would become more contented if we 
made a home for ourselves so I have pro- 
vided the home and have kept it up and, 
although attending to business, I do the 
work of the house. All of this would be 
a constant joy and I would grow strong 
if it were only to work for her and our 
home. The work would make no im- 
pression upon me harmfully. Some days 
I leave home to go to my work with 
only the clear horizon of happiness — how 
well I feel and how successful I am on 
those days, too! It does not seem that 
it could ever become dark again but 
when I return home I may receive the 
most terrific tongue lashing from my sis- 
ter. The excuse she begins with may be 
wholly a trumped up thing, at most it will 
be over some mere trifle of disappoint- 
ment for which she blames me and she 
makes it a life and death matter before 
she ceases talking about it ; then she con- 
nects the circumstance with all the things 
she has made the excuse for abusing me, 
or at least goes over enough of them to 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 31 

agitate herself to the highest degree of 
rage and abuse. I do not know where 
she gets the terms in which she curses 
me ; all of her eloquence is applied in her 
terrific condemnation. Any self-defense 
I make arouses her all the more and if I 
were to become angry at her injustice I 
would have occasion to fear for my life, 
so determined is she to overcome me. I 
endeavor to repress all that I could say 
in an outcry at so terrible a thing. When 
I am crushed to the earth and have to 
drag myself through the household ser- 
vice and finally retire, my grief keeps 
me awake until I fall asleep with a dazed 
brain. Of course I see that such de- 
structive images which I hold previous 
to going to sleep is a scientific treat- 
ment/' (A scientific prayer, she could 
have said) "to send me into chronic sor- 
row and suffering and disease. 

"It would make no difference if I 
knew it would take my life I could not 
prevent the overwhelming grief at a sit- 
uation so wholly unjust in which the 
only person in the world I care for is 



32 THE LIFE IDEAL 

treating me so badly. I awaken with 
inflamed nerves ; I do my morning work 
and go out to business all day at the 
work which requires me to walk a great 
deal and the pain is more awful than I 
can describe. My sister may appear 
radiant and happy in a moment after she 
has used her abusive words to my com- 
plete annihilation. After her explosion 
she is perfectly happy but a thousand 
times I have apologized to her for doing 
the things which she, herself, had done, 
not I. I would do anything in the world 
for peace — I would destroy my own life 
easily only I know that could not bring 
her any advantage. I could forget the 
worst thing she ever did or said if she 
would acknowledge she had done wrong 
and ask forgiveness but she never seems 
to believe herself in the wrong, not even 
after she has had her outlet in hateful 
attitudes. She continues to act as if I 
were to be pitied for having been the 
cause of so much suffering to her. But 
I am so grateful for any change that I 
comply with her demands and accept her 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 33 

favorable attitude toward herself, hop- 
ing to delay another attack as long as I 
can. They never are absent a length of 
time sufficient for me to gain in the in- 
terval so as to keep up an average of 
health; I am losing and I hoped with 
your aid to get ahead. You helped me 
to a few days of ease and I saw what 
a wonderful thing is peace and health 
and I was making such good progress in 
my business and I was foolish enough 
to think nothing could ever happen to set 
me back again. I seem to forget how 
terrible the assault of injustice is; how 
terrible it is to hear my own sister using 
language of the vilest sort especially 
that degree of despair that I feel when 
she uses that language in blaming me. I 
cannot imagine what would have become 
of her if I had not taken care of her but 
if I had caused her complete ruin I could 
not be more condemned. Doctor, I wish 
to get well for her sake; what am I to 
do ? Your treatments could cure me but 
not while I have these awful periods of 
grief. I feel that if I did not have the 



34 THE LIFE IDEAL 

griefs I would not need the treatment 
and yet that it is an injustice to you and 
your treatment to take it when I cannot 
live consistent with the harmony you 
teach." 

Well, my reader, what have you to 
say? What is your solution of the prob- 
lem? "Why, I would just get right out 
of the life of such a wicked person," 
says one. Would you do so? Perhaps 
you who reply that way would not be 
situated to pass on a case like this at all 
for I see you do not take account of the 
law by which this persecuted sister be- 
came the victim. You, the same as ev- 
ery other person, are a result. Your 
body, its form, state of health therein, 
your disposition, intellectuality and char- 
acter as well as all of your relationships 
are results. Results of what? Results 
of prayers. All images are scientific 
prayers, all images that become present 
in the subconscious. This good woman 
grew up under the teaching that sacri- 
fice is the highest order of human life; 
she prayed while establishing her prin- 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 35 

ciples of spontaneous sacrifice that she 
might become the scape goat — perhaps 
in the more modern language which by 
use has ceased to be slang, the goat. She 
prayed that she might be repressed in 
that which she could become and, there- 
fore, prayed that a life would become so 
selfish that it would dominate her and 
help repress her — help her fulfill her 
spirit of sacrifice. If she believed in 
penance she could not possibly pass 
through more typical performance to 
that end. The self annihilation of the 
ascetic could not be greater. Everyone 
who prays to become a victim is praying 
for another to become a victimizer — two 
lives becoming destructive through a 
prayer lived, a prayer that is inspired 
out of the best that is in the human be- 
ing; really inspired through the desire 
to serve but with the idea to serve at 
self loss. 

I suppose you would not be a reader 
of my writings if you aid not have an 
interest in them ro an extent that you 
desire to know what I couH bring out of 



36 THE LIFE IDEAL 

my knowledge of practical psychology 
in the nature of a solution of the prob- 
lem. I am sure it ; s a p :ychological mat- 
ter — a case of cause and effect in all re- 
spects. To change an effect one must 
change the cause. My reply to your im- 
mediate question, what is the cause? The 
cause is prayer, image — thoughts. Each 
kind of thought has its results; destruc- 
tive thought produces destruction, not 
possible construction. Constructive 
thought cannot produce destruction. 
When one sees destruction he must be 
sure that the working plan, image, pray- 
er, was destructive. The situation de- 
scribed is a destructive result. The vic- 
timize^ given to destructive tantrums 
was well filled up with destructive pic- 
turings over which she became emotion- 
al. She planted destructive imagery in 
the soul of her victim and had given the 
suggestions so often under the third de- 
gree principle, with destruction, that the 
one who was abused had wondered if 
she were not mistaken in herself and 
really was as bad as the tormentor de- 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 37 

clared. She was on the eve of con- 
demning herself as she was condemned 
in the imagery of the tyrannical sister. 
Yes, the solution must consist in 
changing the pictures, especially in the 
mind and soul of the one who form- 
ulates the curses. Is this possible? Yes, 
but that which I say from practical ex- 
perience in this matter I would not have 
occasion to say in many things that are 
wholly wrong. I have hope of correc- 
tion in almost every wrong but I can- 
not assume much in these situations and 
I have had them to deal with where it 
was a husband and wife, a brother and 
sister, parent and child, and even in in- 
stances of friends who had become so 
related that one would endure the curses 
of the other and yet continue in his life 
and service. I reply, cure is possible 
but not probable. Impractical, mystical, 
phantastic people, those who are willing 
to affirm an untruth or an improbability 
are intolerant of my truthful statement 
that correction in such instances is im- 
probable. Nothing of the desirable 



38 THE LIFE IDEAL 

occurs without aspiration nor exceeding 
the degree of it; aspiration for correc- 
tion involves admission of a situation 
that needs correction. One who has 
abused and accused another the thous- 
ands of times that occur in the lives of 
those who have tantrums is egotistical, 
admits of no error in himself, manages 
always to get the other person con- 
demned. Admitting no self inharmony 
he aspires for no correction for himself. 
Acknowledgement of need would be the 
vital part of a successful prayer for im- 
provement. 

I noted carefully that the abusing 
sister did not repent afterward. To for- 
give, when asked, is constructive. But 
to ask is constructive because it involves 
acknowledgement of a need and a seek- 
ing after correction. That would become 
a constructive prayer and if one sinned 
against another seventy times seven and 
yet acknowledged the wrong and sought 
forgiveness it would be constructive for 
both persons. The egotist, the selfright- 
eous cannot comply with constructive 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 39 

prayer; they must change in disposition 
first. I could have wished that I might 
say to this woman that if she endured, 
time would cure or that anything else 
would cure; I could say no such thing 
for the law of attainment is through 
aspiration and no one can ask in the right 
spirit pertaining to an imperfection while 
at the same time denying the imperfec- 
tion and charging all inharmony to an- 
other or others. There are many peo- 
ple who go through their lives with 
stunted, stultified characters because 
their dominant quality is to put all blame 
on others for the inharmonies and who 
try to steal the credit for themselves for 
the good done by others. All such 
people are living images, prayers, to be- 
come falsely blamed and to become 
robbed of whatsoever things they do 
possess. Sooner or later their prayers 
become answered for they "will become 
confused and invest where they shall 
lose — sometimes invest that which is 



40 THE LIFE IDEAL 

more precious than money-wealth; in- 
vest their feelings. 

The only item of encouragement to 
offer the distressed lady while she lived 
with the sister was that through our 
telepathic communication with her sister 
we might create in her the impulse to 
wish to realize her wrong modes and 
seek to correct them. To argue with her 
would mean her renewal of reply that 
she was right and the other wrong; this 
would be a suggestion to herself to make 
her still more the victim of her hallucina- 
tion of being right when she was alto- 
gether wrong. If we can convey a 
strong impulse to her soul to see the 
truth and acknowledge to her own con- 
sciousness that she is in the wrong we 
might then provide for the next im- 
portant feature, aspiration to become 
right. 

Have you noticed that all of the most 
terrible things in life are things that 
ought not to be and would not be only 
for some one's hardness, harshness, 
tyranny, egotism or self-righteousness? 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 41 

Calamities that come for which there 
seems to be some reasonable excuse do 
not take hold of us with such destruc- 
tion as do things such as I have described 
which are wholly due to injustice. Scien- 
tific prayer is fulfilled by those who are 
unjust, ultimately if not immediately 
bringing into their experience the con- 
sistent results. In my analysis of the 
Gadfly it was made evident that he who 
stings will be stung, and that more pain- 
fully than he could ever sting. One's 
own soul answers in one's own life every 
curse he feels relative to another. 
"Curses, like chickens, come home to 
roost" was in writing books when we 
used to try to write after copy. Why 
do curses come home to the individual 
and live in his life faithful to the imag- 
ery involved in the description when a 
curse is thought, whether uttered or not ? 
Because creating a thought is preparing 
a prayer and a prayer prepared is given 
to the God within to fulfill and the God 
within is equipped with omnipotence so 
far as the individual is concerned. The 



42 THE LIFE IDEAL 

good woman desired only her sister's 
happiness, her blessing. Her good mo- 
tive could not prevent the reversing of 
her chemistry from the normal when a 
destructive emotion filled her soul — the 
imagery called, under the law of prayer, 
for the poisons to be created in her body, 
poisons that caused the nerves to become 
inflamed and her blood so charged with 
wrong chemistry that no cell of her body 
could receive the proper food. The 
question of motive has little to do with 
results — the law is the law of prayer; 
if the imagery is destructive, neither mo- 
tive nor anything else can prevent de- 
struction occurring along the whole line 
in which the imagery applies. Con- 
structive imagery builds everyone and 
everything which comes in contact with 
the imagery. The law, first above all 
other laws to know and co-operate with 
is the law of prayer — the law of enter- 
taining in the subconscious a picture, a 
thought. 

A husband had a form of disease that 
caused him to become delirious a period 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 43 

of time before his death. His wife was 
deeply impressed by that form of his 
suffering and brooded over it a great 
deal. Six months after the husband's 
death a girl was born. At the age of 
thirty the daughter became violently in- 
sane. I am asked if there is any pos- 
sible connection between the mental 
situations of the two persons. It is en- 
tirely consistent that the mother and 
father would have imparted the pre- 
natal imagery and impulse to this child. 
Stored in the subconscious of the child 
may be many potent pictures either of 
the desirable or the unfortunate and that 
is why I never fail to give every person 
who comes under my' care in private or 
class psycho-culture the repeated sugges- 
tion that every picture calling for an 
unhappy experience in disease or other 
form shall become cancelled. A picture 
is a prayer, a suggestion and the way to 
neutralize a picture is not through dosing 
with a chemical but through the intro- 
duction of a counter prayer, suggestion. 
All that can occur through heredity or 



44 THE LIFE IDEAL 

pre-natal influence either would be the 
passing over to the child's soul pictures 
possessed by the parents or ancestors. 
It might be true that the sister described 
in the above has pictures from ancestry 
that gave her the trend in her disposi- 
tion toward abusiveness of one who 
might be serving her life in the most 
important way. Law makes no allow- 
ance for the source — law simply says, 
"You are entertaining pictures in your 
soul, prayers that call for fulfillment; if 
you retain the pictures I shall have to 
continue to bring you the same exper- 
iences. " It is a fact that images created 
from any source can become dissolved, 
made of no effect, therefore each one is 
responsible for retaining virile pictures 
whether he chose them originally or not. 
Under the laws of the silence and sug- 
gestion the pictures can be destroyed be- 
cause under the formulas direct com- 
mand will remove them from the hands 
of the Builder, the individual's own soul. 
All the prayers and wishing in the uni- 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 45 

verse, directed elsewhere than to the seat 
of the control within the individual, 
would not remove a single pattern. It 
is quite evident that I had access to the 
wrong sister in the instance given, so far 
as any effect upon the cause of conten- 
tion and unhappiness and disease is con- 
cerned. To reverse her trend, correct 
her disposition would provide for the 
cure of all the forms of inharmonies 
in the lives of both sisters. Still no sug- 
gestions would count for any benefit 
until confession of fault and personal 
aspiration became a voluntary attitude. 

Everything desirable, even to heaven 
in all of its features is attainable through 
prayer but growth depends as much upon 
elimination as upon nutrition. To elim- 
inate a fault requires the acknowledge- 
ment of the fault. Man is his own 
maker; he makes himself through prayer 
because by prayer he may remove all 
undesirable pictures and place within his 
own soul the desirable pictures. Pray 
without ceasing, but pray, as Jesus 



46 THE LIFE IDEAL 

taught, to the kingdom of heaven, the 
Highest within you. 




Ifegcfyniogg trt ti\t (goat 

| HE small boy was talking to 
his cousin about a water- 
melon. The conversation was 
overheard by the larger boy, 
who, because he was of the same par 
ents, was known as the boy's brother. 
The little fellow was suggesting that the 
cousin should take the melon from the 
patch and hide it a-while, then if any- 
one made a fuss about the melon the 
small brother could say he did not know 
where it was. 

The big brother took the case up for 
trial at early candle lighting when the 
father and mother and some more rel- 
atives were gathered as audience and 
spectators while the condemnation and 
sentence were passed upon the dishonest 
eight-year-old. The condemnation was 
great at the time but the immediate pun- 
ishment was slight, the boy being sent to 
the darkness. 

There never came a time either in 



48 THE LIFE IDEAL 

childhood, youth or manhood in which 
the elder brother did not consider him- 
self the detective, witness, judge and 
jury to keep new miseries and condemna- 
tions over the younger. Had he not 
proved that the younger was dishonest, 
not to be trusted on a farm where there 
was a ripe watermelon? And is it not 
true that he who will steal a penny in 
his childhood would steal a million in 
his adult stage? 

There is, so it is alleged, a scape-goat 
in every family. The world loves a 
scape-goat, even appointing Jesus to be 
one for all the theological world. Rather 
than seem to create confusion between 
this small boy and Jesus we would best 
adopt the modern word which has passed 
from slang into acceptance in good so- 
ciety — the younger lad and man was the 
goat. The elder, self-righteous brother 
committed much more wrong than any 
one boy's portion, but having obtained 
the conviction of the child on one occa- 
sion he was situated to make him the 
goat on all others. The self-righteous 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 49 

one always went clear for he had ways 
of bringing appearancees to show him- 
self present in wrongs only as a guardian 
of his younger brother, who was so bad. 
In this family it was shown that it is 
scientifically dependable — "to get a dog 
killed, first give him a bad name." 

I could add that from the history of 
this family a real sneak with the cow- 
ardice of the evesdropper with fondness 
for condemning others and the hypocrisy 
of the self-righteous may become an 
everlasting factor of evil in the life of 
one whom he selects for his victim. 

The little fellow, it seems, arrived in 
the world to the great disappointment 
of all who should have prepared a gra- 
cious welcome, therefore, there were 
many forms of force working to appoint 
him the goat. He became necessary to 
the elder brother, the coward, who en- 
joyed torturing the younger to the very 
point of death. He made the selection 
of a poor cutting instrument which was 
the only reason that at ten years of age 
he did not escape the world of affliction 



50 THE LIFE IDEAL 

through his own hand. However, he 
served the important purpose in his 
brother's life for the latter needed an 
outlet for the meanness which no cir- 
cumstances except those of a "well reg- 
ulated" home could have provided. 

Both became grown up but still re- 
mained in the same relationship. When 
business matters developed in a form in 
which the senior had purchased much 
more merchandise than he could sell and 
was heading for financial ruin, the goat 
arranged to get his notes taken and his 
brother's released. The ultimate con- 
demnation of the goat was as complete 
as when he planned to steal his own 
watermelon. The sneak (detective) 
could look in any old ash-barrel and find 
evidence to incriminate the brother and 
he managed to do so upon every point 
upon which the younger man had any 
ideals. His motives were impugned until 
he doubted his own sincere intentions in 
any matter and a thousand times he felt 
that he would best accept his classifica- 
tion and become as bad as those who 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 51 

made his life and by their tyranny re- 
pressed all that was greatest within him. 
The psychology of relatives, when an- 
alyzed, exhibits the fact that almost 
every life is directed to its great disad- 
vantage and limitation by the attitudes 
of the ones, closely related. The very 
last liberation that comes to anyone, if 
it comes, is liberation from the bad im- 
agery held over him by his relatives. 

I have analyzed the above typical case 
and, like you, my reader, I asked what 
it could be that kept the boys and men 
in contact — why did the younger one 
continue to be a goat? The short and 
true answer is, prayers held them both 
in just what they were at all times — 
prayers that went in advance of the 
facts and forms. The boy who was mis- 
judged was filled with pictures calling 
for a sneak to remain in his life — one 
who would always keep him under suspi- 
cion. The elder brother was filled with 
pictures by which he must continue to 
condemn unjustly — he was also sending 
prayers ahead which must ultimately 



52 THE LIFE IDEAL 

cause him to be in a situation to be con- 
demned without cause ; he, too, must get 
into a situation where one could hurt 
him more than he had ever hurt his vic- 
tim and also it must be a situation in 
which he was not earning such bad treat- 
ment from the source from which it 
came. He had earned it — he had put 
out pictures calling for it but the agent 
of his affliction must not be warranted 
in giving him the judgements and the 
punishments. I am faithful to my sub- 
ject — prayers are pictures stored in the 
subconscious, the prayer answering 
power and every picture will be fulfilled 
unless it is destroyed by a counter sug- 
gestion. 

Time went on and the self-righteous 
brother became confused in his plans 
and thought he was doing the best for 
himself and such a noble deed for an- 
other, his sister, that he provided for 
her a nice home. Pretty soon she be- 
came dissatisfied and turned upon her 
brother to pronounce him the chief fac- 
tor of destruction of all that was good 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 53 

in her and her life. Really he was pro- 
viding for her more than one could rea- 
sonably ask. Now he is the goat — his 
prayers, pictures which had been stored 
away while he was unjustly condemning 
his brother are becoming fulfilled, paid 
up with usury. The meanness described 
under the title in this book, "Tantrums 
Are Prayers" which was attributed to 
the victimized sister, was the quality of 
his sister's description of the brother 
who was trying his best to make her life 
most comfortable. His desperation be- 
came so great that he even appealed to 
his younger brother, his oftimes goat, 
for a solution of the problem. By this 
time the younger had had his "eye teeth* 
cut and had only one reply to make — 
the reply, "One's life is an incessant 
sowing and reaping; in one period the 
individual realizes his pictures of a for- 
mer period. When those pictures, pray- 
ers are fulfilled then one merges into 
the fulfillment of another series of pic- 
turings, for thoughts are seeds and they 
are sown in the soul's field and they 



54 THE LIFE IDEAL 

must all grow unless their virility is de- 
stroyed. " The sister was issuing threats, 
prayers, pictures, thoughts, of getting 
married — prayers that were seeds sown 
in her soul and in the soul of the brother. 
She became married after this period 
of mistaken emotions and false interpre- 
tations and accusations against her bro- 
ther. She was praying for a real form 
to come which would fulfill her mistaken 
interpretation of the brother. As for 
her and her prayers, let it suffice to say 
that she declared that the good, worth- 
while work of her life would be accomp- 
lished in developing self-mastery in her 
husband who has tantrums and becomes 
angrier and more severe in his false 
abuse of her than she ever was capable 
of becoming in regard to her brother. 
Scientific prayer, is my subject and I 
have not made a digression. What be- 
came of the brother, the one who created 
the goat, and then, himself, became the 
goat? The outlook seems to be favor- 
able for him to remain a goat the rest 
of his life. He fixed his affections on 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 55 

an idea, all of his hopes, centering all 
of his joys on one picture — and for him 
the picture is not within the laws of cre- 
ation to become fulfilled. His sister's 
pictures of marriage grew like weeds in 
his soul — everyone knows what cockle- 
burrs, ragweeds, dogfennel, dandelion 
do to wheat, corn or other desirable 
products; his stored pictures are cre- 
ating results after the order indicated. 
Liberation is not in prospect ; apparently 
he has tied his hands for the rest of his 
life. He has deceived himself all along 
the way as does everyone who becomes 
a ferret to seek out the evil of others. 
What one looks for in others is a scien- 
tific prayer to become like, one's self. 
Life is full of the greatest privilege that 
the Universe has to bestow ; the privilege 
of making pictures, thinking thoughts, 
formulating prayers. We may reverse 
all trends by changing the pictures, an- 
nihilating the undesirable laying hold 
upon the desirable. 




|0 FEARLESS and sincere 
student will value any- 
thing Jesus was alleged to 
have said unless it be con- 
sistent with his predominating thought 
or with demonstrated truth. The one 
fact of the long period of time which 
elapsed before his teachings were put 
into any form for permanent preserva- 
tion would make the report unreliable. 

To whatever extent I shall at any time 
give attention to any sayings of any part 
of the New or Old Testament it will be 
to preserve a truth — not because I think 
any writer therein originated a truth. 
I must be understood to believe com- 
pletely in the divinity of Jesus, for a 
man cannot reach individualization by 
any route except the God his Father 
route. 

Man is spirit, therefore could not be 
the offspring of matter, although he 
could not manifest as an individual spirit 
without a material body or instrument. 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 57 

Not even an insane mind has been able 
to form a conception of spirit separate 
from some sort of a body, ethereal or 
coarser. I wish to be understood to be- 
lieve that Jesus meant what he said when 
he taught the universal brotherhood of 
man and the common divinity in which 
he participated with all who should come 
after him. 

Many a church has not been built upon 
the truths of the Bible, but upon dis- 
torted interpretations of it. It is a fail- 
ing institution with a disposition to dis- 
card, not the Bible, but its own teach- 
ings, with no tendency to approach the 
truths in the book. Therefore it is for 
the scientist to save the good that is 
in the Xew Testament. 

I realize that when the disciples asked 
Jesus what to say, he gave them a scien- 
itfic formula, which I take pleasure in 
exhibiting in its accuracy, to restore it 
to use — to be prayed in spirit, not simply 
in form as it has been in the past. 

The Father, the Creator of each body, 
is the soul that is in that bodv, and the 



58 THE LIFE IDEAL 

same God that builds the body remains 
present within it to rule it, rebuild it and 
to answer to all that the individual is to 
be or to have; this is the permanent in- 
dividual. 

Let us follow this fact now. When 
they asked Jesus to teach them a prayer 
like John taught his disciples, Jesus said 
to begin by saying ( he was teaching 
the number) : "Our Father which art in 

heaven " Then they interrupted him 

and asked: "Where is heaven?" To 
which he replied: " — the kingdom of 
heaven cometh not with observation, it 
is within you." 

The Father or King or Creator that 
is in this kingdom of heaven is the 
power that he told them to address. To 
study this with understanding we should 
think what it is with which the disciples 
were to make this prayer. You surely 
see at once that it is the objective man 
that is praying. Is it not plain that the 
instruction is "When you pray, choose 
these words?" Now, if one chooses, he 
does so with his conscious will or ob- 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 59 

jective — his intellectual department. 

Literally ,then, Jesus told them to pray 
with the outer, objective man to the 
Father which is in the Kingdom of 
Heaven, which is within, and also taught 
them to believe that when they prayed 
they would receive. Jesus had shown 
them that the individual, prayer-answer- 
ing God is within. He had shown them 
about the innate perfect knowledge 
within in all of the lessons he had taught 
about his father — that he and his father 
are one with the Comforter which is 
one of the provinces of the department 
of innate knowledge — lessons which 
taught that the father and son and holy 
spirit or Comforter are one. Then, in 
order to make the individual a unit by 
bringing external self and life into ac- 
cord with his inner self, he asks them 
to pray and to say: 'Our Father which 
art in heaven, hallowed be thy name" — 
a man should with his will reverence his 
own soul — 'thy kingdom come, thy will 
be done on earth as it is in heaven" — 
a reasonable prayer in view of the fact 



60 THE LIFE IDEAL 

that the outer or sense standards and 
the limited knowledge of the objective 
reasoning mind and will could not choose 
for the best nor know how to direct the 
life. Therefore, the prayer to cause the 
objective life to be of the same will that 
is known by the department of innate 
knowledge, so that all the phases of one's 
life will be under infinite guidance, is 
essential. 

"Give us this day our daily bread" is 
a good form for two reasons ; one is that 
it teaches the lesson of constant trust 
that prevents us from looking ahead with 
anxiety, and the other is that if the in- 
nate department of the soul is believed 
in to an extent that it is even prayed to 
it will prompt all of the activities in busi- 
ness and breadwinning life; an attitude 
and practice most needed by us today. 

"Forgive us our trespasses as we for- 
give those who trespass against us" — if 
there had been any doubt previous to 
this sentence that this is the prayer of 
the voluntary part of the man it would 
be decided here, when he says for one 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 61 

to forgive another, etc. In forgiving 
you have to first bring your mind to 
choose to forgive, and afterwards, in 
your heart, you forgive. 

He says for his disciples to command 
that creative, controlling, supreme power 
within to express the harmonies in the 
objective, physical and intellectual man 
that the intellectual man chooses to have 
in his relationship to his fellow man. I 
wish to make this vital phase of the 
question plain, so I will say: Let it be 
supposed that one comes to a decision 
to hate his fellow man, with cause or 
without. Hate is always just the same, 
it is on the destructive side (you do not 
have to hate any one, just go away and 
have nothing to do with him if he is not 
congenial enough to be helped at your 
hands). A hating attitude of the mind 
determines the imagery to be held in the 
mind — it is law that the image held in 
the mind shall be the design which the 
building and organizing and reorganizing 
power within shall follow. When that 
controlling power exhibits hate in the 



62 THE LIFE IDEAL 

body, the individual is sick and his mind 
soon ceases to think right. 

It is equivalent to a command to that 
power within to curse one in every way, 
for that one to fill his mind with hate 
or condemnation. I have given the ex- 
act chemical and other constitutional 
changes attendant upon the unforgiving 
attitude in various books. Let it be that 
a man chooses to forgive another, then 
in accord with his prayer his soul acts 
generously, constructively and harmoni- 
ously through and upon the individual 
in all of his phases. Even Jesus paid ev- 
ery tribute to the man's will. He al- 
ways showed that a man could have that 
which he chose, but that if he chose not 
in accord with this father in the inner 
kingdom, that which he received would 
be to his injury; that it would separate 
him objectively from his innate self, his 
department of ideals. And he further 
taught that this separation constituted 
hell, punishment — that a rich man would 
seldom find this innate self because he, 
having his objective standards, would 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 63 

not seek the higher and seeking is the 
essential act upon the part of the con- 
scious mind in order to find the higher. 

Then Jesus said: "Lead us not into 
temptation, but deliver us from evil." 
To see the meaning of this you will have 
to follow me through the process by 
which one can make such an impression 
upon his Father, his soul, his controlling 
department, that that power could be 
caused to lead one to choose evil spon- 
taneously. In order that a man be a 
free agent he must be so related in his 
will to the building and executive power 
within him that he can command that 
power to obey the will in its choice. If 
one could not will and cause the execu- 
tive department to follow his choosing 
there would be no individuality — we are 
made peculiar through our individual in- 
terpretations of life. 

Then, since this is true, we choose a 
way of thinking or we choose an action. 
We choose to do a thing and after so 
choosing and so acting a few times we 
discover that we do that thing in that 



64 THE LIFE IDEAL 

way without thinking — we do it spon- 
taneously. We do it involuntarily and 
unconsciously because we have by the 
repetition impressed the power within 
that that is our desire. Jesus said to 
them that if they would pray in his way, 
in these words, that they could affect 
this spontaneous department to give their 
minds right inclinations and correct the 
impressions to the contrary that had been 
made upon that plastic self. 

"For thine is the kingdom and the 
power and the glory, forever. ,, 

Scientifically speaking, if a man lives 
a constant acknowledgement that the in- 
nate self is the everlasting individual, 
and that all superior power is inherent 
there, this attitude unifies the individual 
in all of his phases, under the one king- 
dom of heaven, and such an individual 
will surely say "thine is the Glory." 

If you will read the whole teachings 
of Jesus you will realize that this was the 
Kingdom he came to establish on earth; 
to acquaint each man with his own in- 
nate, God self ; the instruction that would 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 65 

show the law of his own liberty. He did 
not come to create a church; he formed 
no organizations. The church's interpre- 
tation that his teachings were to point 
man to heaven as a place after death is 
far from the truth and far more disas- 
trous than the interpretation that the 
Jews and Romans put upon his teach- 
ings when they said he was trying to es- 
tablish a local government with himself 
as the ruler — which interpretation did, in 
accord with his own oft repeated prophe- 
cy, result in his death. 

The plain and simple teachings of Je- 
sus will cause the development of char- 
acter. The distortion has robbed the 
believing man of his hope and his for- 
mula for development. 

I commend to all men the prayer 
Jesus taught his disciples, realizing that 
it is the conscious man addressing the 
God within, never to pray as a form only, 
but to believe and feel ; modify the words 
to meet any situation. 




HERE is a scientific form- 
ula for obtaining the Vis- 
ion, for receiving inspira- 
tion, the true and depend- 
able guidance, instruction and comfort, 
direct from the department that has per- 
fect knowledge and power. 

That formula is comprehended in the 
terms and practices and principles of the 
Silence. 

There is a heavenly quiet which can 
be enjoyed and converted into multi- 
plied blessing by an adept, even if he 
were in the midst of great anvils, fur- 
naces and forges of a riveting shop or 
surrounded by a multitude of turbulent 
people. A quiet that he feels in all of 
his being when he commands it ; when he 
may hear no other musical instrument 
but his own violin or piano, although 
a score of instruments were operating 
around him, each following its own mel- 
ody. 

There are others who are completely 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 67 

stunned by sounds or movements or even 
thoughts around them; those who can 
not sit quietly or choose their own move- 
ments in the midst of a multitude, but 
rather fall into the confusion with oth- 
ers. Again, there are those who never 
know or feel the quiet even in the soli- 
tude of forest or desert or by the side 
of still waters. Not feeling the quiet, 
they often make violent sounds to drive 
away fear. I find there are as many va- 
rieties of attitudes toward quiet as there 
are people, so I may as well desist from 
defining what mere quiet means to hu- 
man beings. 

There are many senses in which there 
may be a quiet, none of which are in 
any way related to 'The Silence" — to ex- 
plain this will enable many people to un- 
derstand why they do not receive the 
blessings that we claim scientifically pos- 
sible from certain practices under the 
true Silence. 

Many a man has followed a habit of 
taking a little walk at the beginning or 
the ending of the day or at midday who 



68 THE LIFE IDEAL 

never obtained any important result from 
it; yet when Abraham Lincoln returned 
to the White House after his walk he 
knew exactly what to do with reference 
to the pending questions of that day. 
Many a man has sat back in his seat 
in a car, to all appearances asleep, al- 
though not asleep, who only obtained a 
little physical rest and relaxation; Lin- 
coln under similar circumstances had 
something at hand the following day, 
which he prepared in those moments on 
the train, that so far exceeded in merit the 
speech of Everett, the greatest orator of 
that period, that Lincoln's speech made 
the people feel it would have been a 
sacrilege to applayd, a speech that car- 
ried every man with the speaker to the 
complete annihilation of the prejudices. 
Lincoln had a miracle for every hour of 
his life to all except those who under- 
stand the powers of the Silence. No 
man ever excelled him in the practical 
knowledge that was needed in his field 
of action and yet he had not the educa- 
tion of school or college ; he had the edu- 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 69 

cation of "The Silence." But if thous- 
ands of others have done the same things, 
apparently, that he did with reference to 
retreating from the stir of surroundings, 
yet could not solve problems, what was 
the secret of Lincoln's bringing so much 
out of the principle and practice? 

Lincoln was not one who went into 
trances, nor did he ever think that he was 
spoken to by a voice from the outside, 
so his ability to retire was a retirement 
to his inner self. His soul was his teach- 
er all through his life. Without know- 
ing it, perhaps, he scientifically applied 
the laws of the Silence. Lincoln's great- 
ness is not for you, but a greater great- 
ness for you is to be found in the same 
practice, for it will be your individual 
unfoldment, and what is your own is 
more to you than if you were a copy of 
the Savior of the world. 

To begin a formal practice of the 
Methods of the Silence the universal 
procedure, regardless of the form of the 
blessing you wish, is the preparation by 
passivity. 



70 THE LIFE IDEAL 

Passivity is a mental state as com- 
plete in rest and ease as if you were 
asleep, although the stage of passivity I 
am describing is not sleep, but often is 
followed by sleep. 

Passivity of the mind cannot be per- 
fect with any tension upon the body, ex- 
ternal or internal. The first step, there- 
fore, is to place the body in a place and 
position where relaxation is possible. 
Will to let go. When you actually drop 
down as a dead weight upon chair or 
couch you put all of the voluntary part 
of you to rest and this is sufficiently sug- 
gestive to your involuntary mind to put 
all involuntary organs and structures to 
rest, internal and external. Now let your 
mind wander, indifferently, to many sub- 
jects, avoiding concentration of the mind, 
for that is activity, whereas you are now 
seeking passivity. 

When the body is comfortable and re- 
laxed and the mind indifferent, passivity 
is not slow in coming to almost any one. 

You have in the above the lesson on 
passivity which is scientific. Every one 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 71 

has brought ruin to himself when he 
modified it. When they tell you to con- 
centrate your mind in this passivity you 
will prevent all good results if you obey 
them. Do you ask why? Because the 
passivity is for the purpose of bringing 
your objective self subject to impressions 
that come out of the subjective self; of 
blending your conscious mind with the 
soul so that you can receive its instruc- 
tions or the benefit of its healing power. 
You are making ready to carry your 
prayer right to the power that can 
answer it, and as long as your conscious 
mind remains actively fixed upon the 
thing you wish your soul is not taking 
hold of the matter. You must objective- 
ly place your desires with your soul. 

If I have made the ways of relaxation 
and passivity sufficiently plain to you, let 
us go back to something that you should 
do before you become passive. I might 
refer you to Lincoln's practice to make 
this clear. The national questions were 
before him to answer. With his ob- 
jective phase of mind, he reviewed all 



72 THE LIFE IDEAL 

of the features of the matter and he 
saw how vital the situation was and he 
was intensely alive with the desire to 
take the proper action — he aspired to do 
the best thing. Then he said to himself : 
"I will put this aside now and think of 
something else and after awhile I will 
take a walk down the highway and when 
I come back I will take this up and 
decide upon it." He did not meditate 
upon it while he was gone, but if it came 
into his mind he looked for a bird or 
talked to the trees — his mind was in a 
state of abstraction — sometimes he 
would say: "Well, Til sleep over this 
and tell you in the morning ;" that is 
the same thing, there is aspiration, there 
is a mental act of separating the one 
idea from every other, which is concen- 
tration, and then there is a complete 
trust that you will know, after your rest, 
what to do. These steps are all pre- 
paratory and previous to the relaxation 
and passivity. 

Thousands of people have used this 
formula with a desire to obtain a cer- 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 73 

tain answer — and they received an over- 
whelming impulse in the direction they 
wished. This shows that the power that 
answers in the practice of the Silence 
is controllable by suggestion, even to an 
extent that it will give you just what 
you ask, even if it is untrue. Therefore, 
do not ask for a certain answer, but ask 
for the truth. Do not command your 
soul to concur in preconceived ideas, but 
ask it to guide and instruct according to 
its will and perfect innate knowledge. 

Do you ask me what manner of things 
you shall ask for, under the practice of 
aspiration, forgetting and passivity? I 
would reply: Anything that is to affect 
in any way your mind, your body or 
your character; that is to be expressed 
primarily upon or through either, for, 
literally speaking, nothing affects one 
without affecting the three phases of the 
individual. They are inseparable in the 
present form of our existence. It is 
through the principles of the Silence that 
cure takes place, when it occurs, whether 
the scientific formula of the Silence is 



74 THE LIFE IDEAL 

used or not. Healing is much more 
likely to occur if the formula is used, 
for that is the best way to get action 
upon the power that heals. 

All who are informed upon the scien- 
tific formula for healing know that it 
is, as described above, under passivity; 
but instead of the patient himself trying 
to concentrate upon the change he wishes 
and then forget it a second person gives 
him the suggestions while he is passive. 
Do you, then, realize how I became 
acquainted with the virtues of the Si- 
lence ? 

It is no uncertain power with me when 
hundreds of people afflicted with every 
form of disease common in this country 
are among those who have responded to 
suggestions given under the principles 
taught herein. 

Every undesirable habit has likewise 
disappeared when treatments were given 
in that form; insanity of manias as well 
as general insanity has responded to the 
same principle. 

Self-consciousness and lack of self- 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 75 

confidence, the two conditions that have 
stood in the way of success in more 
people and defeated the best hopes and 
possibilities in business, education and 
art in more instances than all other bar- 
riers combined, have been completely 
corrected in countless numbers by the 
power and methods of Silence. 

Referring to the beginning of the sub- 
ject, the formulas of the Silence, you 
will recall that I said these forms were 
proper to follow for a time. As a formal 
practice deliberately prepared for, they 
can be dropped after a time, because 
there is a law that at whatsoever you 
fix your standards, that occurs spontan- 
eously. The formal, daily practice is to 
impress the soul that your will standards 
are to act in accord with it. When you 
have established the habit of turning the 
mind aspiringly within, you will then at 
all times, regardless of noise or people 
or any other conceivable thing, fulfill the 
laws of the Silence. This is active 
Silence. 

The purpose of all formal practice is 



76 THE LIFE IDEAL 

to reach the point where one does the 
thing spontaneously, at least in principle. 
Let it become the standard of the in- 
dividual that out of his soul shall pro- 
ceed the solution of his problems, then 
in the midst of his speech the lawyer 
or the platform speaker will receive the 
instruction — will speak the words out of 
his soul as literally as if he had aspired, 
forgotten and sat in the quiet for a half 
of an hour. What we call subjective 
artists of any sort are those who have 
in some way come in touch with the soul. 
The accomplishment of this sort through 
the objective effort to learn the thing so 
perfectly that it can be done with ease, 
can be reduced to months by the formal 
practice of appealing to the soul under 
the laws of the Silence to impress the 
consciousness or use the body to express 
the thing. Objectively to let go is the 
most difficult lesson to learn, but if 
aspiration to do that with reference to 
anything is followed by the attitude or 
standards of the Silence, mastery is 
easy. Instead of living an attitude that 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 77 

we are learning something, bringing it 
in from the outside, let one conceive of 
the truth that the knowledge and power 
are within ; that the soul shall, therefore, 
express it. Then remember that the 
soul expresses itself upon the passive 
principle, literally meaning that one ob- 
jectively becomes surrendered, becomes 
as a little child in the soul's hands. 

After the high estimate has been put 
upon the practice of the methods of the 
Silence for the purpose of curing disease 
or habits and for the development of 
physical power or skill or for intellectual 
attainment and art culture, for the 
establishment of poise and the increase 
of harmony in many directions, still there 
are untold blessings that mean more to 
some of us than all of those and other 
things thus far mentioned. 

Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: 
"Men seak retreats for themselves, 
houses in the country, seashores and 
mountains, but this is altogether a mark 
of the most common sort of men, for it 
is in thy power, whenever thou shalt 



78 THE LIFE IDEAL 

choose, to retire into thyself." 

"For nowhere either with more quiet 
or more freedom from trouble does a 
man retire than into his own soul, par- 
ticularly when he has within him such 
thoughts that by looking into them he 
is immediately in perfect tranquility; 
and I affirm that tranquility is nothing 
else than the good ordering of the mind. 
Constantly, then, give thyself this re- 
treat, and renew thyself." Had the Em- 
peror given us a practical formula such 
as is given in these pages what a bene- 
factor he would have been to all man- 
kind. 

So do I find, for the purposes he 
mentions, the matchless value of the 
Silence, for that is the great Ocean of 
Love, of God, in which one can immerse 
himself completely and find afterwards 
his perceptions clear and his heart at 
ease — all anxiety, all doubt, all fear have 
departed. An indifference comes that 
makes one master over things, condi- 
tions and himself. The Silence is the 
Holy Ghost, the Comforter that Jesus 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 79 

said he would leave with his disciples. 
Not that he meant he might take it away 
with him if he chose, but that he had 
taught them to enter into the closet (the 
quiet) to pray and there meet the 
Silence; before departing he had re- 
vealed their God within to them, so they 
were possessed of the Comforter, who 
should also teach them or interpret for 
them. 

If distress threatens to come, use my 
formula to find the retreat and see how 
quickly peace is again enthroned. I can- 
not exhaust this subject; I only wish to 
set you to thinking, for you will find 
the individual need, always, if you use 
our psychology laws of the Silence. 

Then, there is the feature of real com- 
panionship in the soul's own world — by 
which I mean not only the real com- 
panions, but the companions as they 
really are. You have to make every 
allowance for the false or limited in the 
objective expression of any one to love 
him as you wish to. Not that your com- 
panions are intentionally deceitful or 



80 THE LIFE IDEAL 

lacking, but that it is impossible for the 
exterior to express all that the soul is. 
When I retire to my innermost self as I 
teach herein I find my own as my own 
really is, and while I see others, too, as 
they are, since they are not congenial to 
me they are not mine; and I bless them 
by letting them alone and then find my 
world just as it is peopled upon the basis 
of the All-knowing, and they are per- 
fectly adjusted and adapted. 

Some readers will be disposed to pass 
this over lightly, not to return to it until 
through objective bad choosing they 
meet with terrible disappointment in 
some one, then come back and seek 
remedy for their heartsickness. You will 
find your remedy, but I wish to impress 
you with a great meaning and value in 
this world which your soul has peopled 
with a choice based upon fitness. If one 
grows it must be upon the principle of 
unfoldment from within, yet we have 
discovered that he grows upon what he 
brings up to his consciousness, to his 
realization. The soul's food is in blend- 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 81 

ing with its own — not only stimulation, 
but food, too, can be found in con- 
sciously communing with those subcon- 
sciously present. 

The unspeakable loneliness with which 
men suffer can be removed when they 
see this lesson that shows the approach 
to the Silence. Follow your own inclina- 
tions upon the subject of meeting and 
communing in your inner self with those 
that have departed; I am treating the 
subject of companionship with your own 
whether present in body or miles from 
you. It makes little difference if you 
are present together in body, you still 
have to get into the depths of your soul, 
each does, to know the other. You need 
not cast out of your objective life all 
who cannot get into your soul life, but 
you will be very fortunate indeed when 
your soul indicates who are the mem- 
bers of your real self and who can never 
become so. Your chief disappointments 
in people come from an effort to take 



82 THE LIFE IDEAL 

them to your heart and companionship 
in a manner for which they have no 
quality. 




ISIONS of a sublime sort 
are of frequent occurence in 
human affairs, but the indi- 
vidual usually has been so 
overawed by the experience that he at 
once set out to make it as mysterious to 
himself and others as he could. He has 
thought that some figure he called God 
had spoken from some remote corner or 
high place in the universe through sym- 
bol, and being an object of such high 
honor, according to his interpretation, he 
must compel other men to honor him by 
looking up to him as had his God. So with 
meaningless words and long dissertation 
he has led himself and others away from 
what would have been a very useful in- 
struction. 

Upon the subject of visions I will give 
you the simple facts by which we not 
only explain what they are, but how to 
obtain them. 

I could not estimate their value if I 
exhausted all language, for objective 



84 THE LIFE IDEAL 

language as such is limited to time, 
whereas the merit of visions belongs to 
all eternity. 

Heretofore when the question was 
asked as to what a vision is and it was 
answered by saying: "A message from 
God," there was about as much explana- 
tion as is given to the child when he 
asks: "Where did baby come from?" 
and he is told that God gave it to them, 
or "Where did the flower come from?" 
and he is told that God made it. The 
child is entitled to the details, even if 
in a sense the answer given is true (how- 
ever, it never was true in the sense of 
the individual who used it who said God 
made the child or flower under especial 
observation from His seat on a throne 
far away). 

We are constantly using the word 
image, to stand for all things not present 
or in form, so we might not distinguish 
between a vision and an image of the 
ordinary sort and source. 

In an image, you have a mental picture 
in which you are aware that you gather 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 85 

the different elements to make up the 
whole, as a mental selection. You may 
begin with a picture of a horse upon 
which you can place in your image 
different individuals one after another. 
You may begin with a house and add its 
windows and its doors and its roof and 
its paint and its chimneys, and a flag- 
staff, if you wish. You have created the 
thing by the exercise of your objective 
mind and you are fully aware that you 
have no idea in connection with this 
image but that which is entirely within 
the range of your objective knowledge. 
A Vision appears before this same 
mind which you use in creating a picture, 
but it does not come by the process of 
voluntarily reaching out to obtain the 
elements to assemble the image. You 
are possessed of a picture just as plain 
as the other one, but it is, for the time 
being, as if a power entirely outside of 
your mind had set the picture there, 
which you cannot change. In fact, when 
you have this picture, which we may 
call the Vision, there is not a power of 



86 THE LIFE IDEAL 

the mind to add anything to it at the 
time, nor take anything from it. If it 
is a house without a flagstaff, you can- 
not imagine what that particular house 
would appear like with the flagstaff. If 
it is a vision of literal musical harmonies 
of sound, you cannot imagine a modifica- 
tion of the tones. 

Shall I tell you now where this picture 
came from that was forced involuntarily 
into your consciousness ? It came up out 
of your own soul; it was there created 
or there possessed and you have had the 
good fortune to become so related, con- 
scious to sub-conscious, that the holdings 
of that subjective self have been passed 
over your threshold of consciousness 
and you saw something that God keeps 
in the inner storehouse. The Universe 
has all knowledge ; there is no knowledge 
that is not possessed by the Universe; 
the Universe gives over to each indi- 
vidual member a complete and perfect 
knowledge in every form that in any 
way pertains to that individual. The 
past, present and future of the individual 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 87 

hold interest for the human soul at all 
times, therefore they are k^own to it; 
the pattern which the individual could 
fulfill is known at all times by the indi- 
vidual — it is all stated when we say, 
complete and perfect knowledge, that in 
any way pertains to the individual, is 
held by the human soul — you can regard 
it as that which the Universe gives him 
or that part which he fills in the Uni- 
verse ; it is a practical thought to us only 
when we voluntarily conceive of it; that 
all knowledge and all power and potency 
for the individual are ready and always 
within him. 

A Vision is a picture, preferably, an 
ideal from God, the God that the innate 
self is. 

All inner knowledge and power are to 
be objectified or to be used in practice 
in the three phases, spiritual, mental and 
physical of the man. The man is not 
typical of the Universe until the same 
principles of harmony prevail in his 
mental and physical processes that are 
innate in the soul. 



88 THE LIFE IDEAL 

This comes only after voluntary aspi- 
ration. To make aspiration fruitful we 
must comply with the terms of the sub- 
jective, upon which it gives its knowl- 
edge and its power over to the outer 
consciousness. When the objective de- 
partment of man becomes a unit with 
his subjective he then blends with the 
Universe — pulsates in unison with it. 




Stye fofoer tysi $lenl* 

AY after day, month after 
month and session after ses- 
sion of medical study and 
listening to lectures I 
watched the manifestations, anatomical, 
physiological, botanical, of disease and 
healing but from no source, while in this 
study did there ever come any explana- 
tion of the power that produced the mar- 
vels. The surgeon would explain that 
we could clean up a wound and bring the 
parts together, then there would occur 
the multiplication of cells with many 
series and varieties until presently union 
would take place; he never taught by 
what power these things occurred. 

The only manner in which any ever 
approached the subject of the power was 
in ridiculing the stage in medical history 
when they taught that spirits directed 
and controlled all the phenomena of dis- 
ease and to be healed required the placa- 
tion of the controlling spirits. You may 
imagine one's disappointment at never 



90 THE LIFE IDEAL 

receiving any interpretation of the power 
that produces so large and varied a class 
of phenomena as that which is compre- 
hended in the elaborate study of medi- 
cine. Theologically speaking, they for- 
merely taught that all things are done 
either by God or the Devil; if this were 
true then one should disclose the rules 
of action governing those competitive 
powers so as to obtain the thing needed 
at their hands. 

Whenever a different mode, (so-called 
new mode) of healing is championed it 
would seem, from the claims, that no one 
was ever ill who had become well again 
previous to the launching of the "new 
mode." Our teaching upon this subject 
is unique: We declare that there prob- 
ably was never a charm, nor drug, nor 
man, nor theology, nor any other object 
that claimed to be a power to heal that 
has not healing to its credit. Man has 
always been getting sick and getting well 
again and he has always used some mode 
of healing; his methods have varied 
from time to time for in one period 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 91 

there will be some prevailing method, at 
another time the leading practice is quite 
different. 

I have not spoken to any one upon 
the subject that has not told me of some- 
thing alleged to have healed persons 
which I had not been informed upon 
and I never feel disposed to doubt their 
truthfulness for I know that anything 
may be used and coincident with its use 
the individual will become healed and 
many times he would not be healed had 
not the thing been used. 

I am confident that had Moses not 
have erected the brazen serpent on the 
pole and caused his people to look to- 
ward it for healing that many more 
would have died from the bites of the 
serpents. I am credulous when the claim 
is made; that a king applied his great 
toe over the seat of the disease in dis- 
orders of the spleen with healing as the 
result. I believe Mesmer's efforts were 
followed by thousands of cures — I know 
they ought to have cured thousands that 
had been pronounced incurable at the 



92 THE LIFE IDEAL 

hands of other medical men. I know 
that Braid with his hypnotic method 
should have cured many. I know fully 
as well that the bones of the saints and 
the laying on of hands and the ashes or 
dust of the bones of the saints and the 
holy oils and the springs have thousands 
of genuine cures to their credit. 

The various schools of medicine, al- 
though extreme opposites in their meth- 
ods, are all successfull in that they give 
their treatment and cure often follows ; 
and one school is just as successful as 
the other when one has an equal oppor- 
tunity with the other. I wish to bear 
witness positively that thousands of 
cures have taken place in recent years 
when a theological formula was used in 
the treatment. 

I wonder if there is anyone of the 
present day who would say there was 
any efficacy in the brazen serpent, in 
Mesmer's magnetism, in Braid's hyno- 
tism, in the bones, dust or ashes of saints 
or the oils, or the hands laid on, in the 
thousands of forms of charms, or the 



SCIENTIFIC PRAYER 93 

varied prescriptions or the theological 
formulas — that any of these things are 
themselves, the Power that heals ? They 
will all have to go into the same class 
in their relationship to healing for they 
all have cures which have attended upon 
their administration. In the light of the 
present day knowledge of the Power 
that heals, they are, in the actual sense, 
related to healing as by coincidence the 
application of the accepted method is 
made and at the same time the patient 
recovers. 

The conclusion of the psychologist or 
any one else who examines the history 
of healing is this : The Power that heals 
is within the individual who needs to be 
healed; the practical psychologist has 
disclosed that this power is a form of 
intelligence, is not the outer form of 
consciousness but is subconscious pre- 
ferably called the soul. All manner of 
things have been taken at a suggestion 
value and have caused the soul to heal 
because suggestion is the key to the 
soul's action; any suggestion, charm, 



94 THE LIFE IDEAL 

drug or theology that can be received as 
a suggestion sufficient to create expect- 
ancy in the soul can provide for the 
mental attitude involved in healing. 

None of the methods, above described, 
are attended by healing in one-half of 
the instances, so are far from being 
scientific. 

Only that method which provides for 
access to the soul to convey suggestion 
and create expectancy can ever become 
scientific. 

Suggestions given to one who is in a 
passive state create soul expectancy. 
The Power that built the body, the soul, 
must heal it. 



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